My daily use USB drive is a Transcend 256GB ESD310, it supports 10Gbps speeds and has been rock solid for me. Technically it’s an SSD and not just a “flash drive”. I use it both for portable storage and as a boot disk via Ventoy. It has USB-A on one side and USB-C on the other, both are 10Gbps.

Unihertz specializes in small phones. They aren’t flagship spec but they are midrange at sensible prices. They also have keyboard phones and even a phone with a built in DMR radio for Amateur and GMRS use.

Not a plug, I don’t even own one I just love that they are daring to be different.

This has been my experience as well. Fedora KDE is easier and more intuitive than Fedora GNOME on my Surface Go 2.